In China, the brand has positioned itself as a destination for the upper middle class, where the consumers can get a high quality coffee experience.

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The disease is now reaching mountainous elevations in Central America that produce high-quality specialty coffee.

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The fungus has ruined what was supposed to be a good year for Colombia, the world's second-largest producer of high-quality arabica coffee, the mild-flavored, hand-picked beans for which coffee traders usually pay a premium.

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The result is a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.

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